Show OTY C TY Of OGDEN IS PRACTICAllY DRY Plug in Cross Joint of Water Main Bursts Temporary ary Wooden Plug to bo be Made Mayor Besieged With Calls From Every Direction It In ia not necessary to lower the tho III to make mako Ogden Oden go dry iry Just break the plug In the water main and the city cl becomes separated from rom a n water supply Tho city cUr has haa practically been dry a number of hours yester ostor yesterday day tho the mishap that caused it being more moro serious perhaps than many man may ma fully realize It reaches a splendid object lesson at least Since yesterday only 15 pounds hoUnds water pressure has hag been fur furnished furnished the city tho cause caruso being the tho bursting of a n Ginch cast Iron plug plu in the cross Joint of o the water main nt fit the intersection of Taylor avenue and street How Ilow the plug luS was broken cannot be under understood understood stood Inasmuch as ad the tho main is three threD feet underground and antI there thero Is ia no possible chance chanco for Cor anyone to get set at atU atH atIt U It to strike it with a sledge hammer or other instrument It just broke broko that is all aIL The plug has bas been beon In the tho main for Cor a long Ions and nd the workers tn In n tho waterworks department state that thal it Is possible that the corrosion of the tho long period of time Hmo has hns so weakened the tho piece picco of oC cast Iron that it was waR no longer lODger strong enough to withstand tho the great greal pressure The Tho break placed the waterworks department In nn an awkward position because It was found in looking over the supply of oC fixtures and extras that lint there was not a single plug In lu the tho lot This meant that a wood wooden en un plug plus had to be turned and the pro process cess cc 8 of ot doing that caused considerable delay dela But every man In the depart lepart department ment m nt got busy and all available help has been employed In the thc task of o got get getting gotting ting tinS to the main and removing tho the parts of or tho the broken plug pluS and tho the placing of oC the ono one made of wood Tho The city would have been completely with without without without out water during this time hud had it il not been heen that there was u a little space In Inthe Inthe inthe the main below bolow the tho broken part parta through which some somo water could bo ho drawn This furnished d about Hi 16 pounds pressure and made m clo it possible to furnish a 0 small supply of or water to the distributing system below belo Adams avenue The pressure pres was low dur duro during durIng ing last and it Is thought that hc the plug began besan to give way wa early in tho evening ovenin of ot Friday Frida finally break breakIng Ing leg loose yesterday morning Tho The fire tire underwriters have ha 0 predict predicted ed that Just such thing as this would happen to Ogden OGdon some day da and that If It a 0 fire should break out before tho the repairs to tuo lLIe water main could bo be made It would be to the tho city Thor They The have havo contended that Ulal for Ogden to get gel tho the best fire Insurance lute rulo the city should have a double main leading lending to the distributing SS system toni tom They The say that this Is an ob oh object lesson that may ma bring the tue tn tax JIU er to the tho t e realization that the they neon been living In constant tant langer of being choked for water at any time 01 or their buildings endangered It seems deems imperative that the water of tho city havo have another main extending from the reservoirs to the tho distributing system This is i necessary sary first because more water Is needed In the thC city Cit and second If it one of 01 the mains should bo ho broken brol en the theother theother theother other would be Intact and tho the city would bo ho protected against lire fire and anda a water famine amine The rho proposed bond I Issue will aid nd the city elt administration in iii improving the water system to a point of efficiency that today toll a seem seems 1 to be demanded Who knows but hut what providence has directed the tho breaking of o tho the plug that the people night might ml ht awaken to the necessity of ei o voting bonds for the betterment of oC the system Mayor was WOR besieged yes yesterday es with telephone messages I asking why there Is no water many man manof of 01 tho hO communicants saying sarin I Turn on the water Mayor we e will willo voto o the tho bonds We Wo see the point P |